29. It's typical of the nastiness that now passes for discourse here

The dumb, star-struck "fans" and the committed-loyal democrats who are righteous beyond measure.

That's precisely the kind of stupidity that loses us some of our best posters, and many of them posters of color. That so much of this is inflected by race is obvious to anyone who is not him or herself star-struck by the sound of his or her own voice, like your interlocutor. If you're not in that bubble, it's obviously driven by hate.